February 21, 2025 @ 4:00 p.m. MT
About the Lecture
Join us for an insightful session exploring how the innovative approach of playful placemaking can revolutionize community engagement and design processes. Using the successful Westminster Legacy Foundation project as a case study, this lecture will highlight the tangible and intangible benefits of play in fostering deeper connections, creativity, and trust within communities. Attendees will hear inspiring stories and discover how implementing playful placemaking techniques can enhance their own projects, creating vibrant and inclusive community spaces.
Speaker Bio
Joy Kuebler, FASLA, is an award-winning professional with more than 20 years’ experience with her work being recognized locally and nationally. Across her career, she has focused her work on the human experience in the landscape, integrating the outdoors and architecture to create unique and inspiring environments. She formed Joy Kuebler Landscape Architect, PC in 2003 to have a positive impact on the quality of life for people through sensitive and responsible designs. Joy has insightfully adapted her firm’s practice to foster the community’s participation and understanding of their site, and their community, through a methodology she calls PLAYCE. PLAYCE blends the empowerment of play found in team-building and social science with the vital design component of site analysis, creating unique community engagement and public participation for both public and private sector projects. In 2020, she launched a second company, PLAYCE Studio, as a training organization bringing her unique community empowerment techniques to design professionals and students as well as municipal and community leaders everywhere. Most recently she co-published the whitepaper “Playful Placemaking; Community Engagement using Social Science in the Design Process” in addition to bringing this methodology to various university programs across the United States.
Cheryl Salazar, MPA, CPRP, has over 17 years in municipal leadership including with the cities of Fontana and San Marcos, and Riverside County, California. She has managed operations, programs, marketing, training, budgeting, commissions, nonprofits and events over the years. She earned her Masters in Public Administration from California Baptist University and is a Certified Parks and Recreation Professional. She has always had a passion for serving the community and through PLAYCE Studio has found an innovative methodology to do so.
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